Breast cancer has returned for a second round with DeDe. She’s lost her hair and both breasts, but not her sense of humor, her pluck or her creativity.

Even as she recuperates from chemotherapy, she’s working on a new dog sculpture bristling with foliage. And she manages to keep up with her avocational work as co-director of Rocky Mountain Chinese Crested Rescue , with two rescued Cresteds at home and her eye on a puppy that (so far) hasn’t joined the household.

But chemo’s not free, and she needs help to pay for the therapy and hospital visits (last week, she was in the hospital with pneumonia).